Velyka Novosilka Raion

Velykonovosilkivskyi Raion
Великоновосілківський район
Raion
Flag of Velykonovosilkivskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Velykonovosilkivskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°50′28.3″N 36°50′8.2″E / 47.841194°N 36.835611°E / 47.841194; 36.835611
Country Ukraine
Oblast Donetsk Oblast
Established1923
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerVelyka Novosilka
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   1 — settlement councils
  • 61 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   1 — urban-type settlements
  • 51 — villages
  •   15 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorSergiy Dmitriev
Area
 • Total
1,900 km2 (700 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
Decrease 37,144
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
85500-84583
Area code+380 6243

Velyka Novosilka Raion (Ukrainian: Великоновосілківський район) was one of the raions (districts) of Donetsk Oblast, southeastern Ukraine, from 1923 to 2020. The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Velyka Novosilka. The last estimate of the raion population was 37,144 (2020 est.).[1]

History

In 1932, it was included in the newly created Donetsk Oblast. At the time, it was referred to as a national raion for ethnic Greeks in Ukraine. Previously, it had been part of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[2]

On 15 May 2014 (during the early phase of the War in Donbas) the Donbas Battalion secured the district from pro-Russian separatists loyal to the Donetsk People's Republic.[3] According to (the then commander the Donbas Battalion) Semen Semenchenko the local police chief, deputies from the Party of Regions and the chairman of the district council "fled in an unknown direction."[3]

The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, of which only five were controlled by the government.[4][5]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census,[6]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians 31,850 64.6%
Greeks 9,730 19.7%
Russians 6,568 13.3%
Belarusians 240 0.5%
Turks 168 0.3%

References

  1. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
  2. ^ ЗЗРРСУУ/1932/22-23/Про утворення Донецької области  (in Ukrainian) – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Velyka Novosilka Raion Donetsk liberated from terrorists and flag DNR, TSN (15 May 2014)
  4. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  6. ^ Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.


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